Multi-Player Cooperative Game in Supply Chain: The Model and Its Solutions

Abstract

There are cooperative games everywhere in supply chain. In many cases, they can be found not only between two players - upstream node and downstream node, but also among many other partners. That's why they are named as multi-player cooperative game. This paper tries to develop the existing bi-player cooperative game theory to the multi-player level, establish a universal model with general sense for multi-player cooperative game in supply chain and give out the solutions and analysis of it. Based on those preliminary studies, a reference can be provided for further complex studies.